Word: patchworked
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Dean Sizer will go on teaching his course in "British and American Edu cation since 1870." But his real job lies in raising money, unifying the patchwork school and refocusing its mission. Sizer hopes to put even more stress on practice teaching, but in urban schools rather than the almost exclusively suburban schools that now feed off Harvard. Given the disarray of big-city schools-Boston's are a compelling example-it is high time for Harvard to help out. Happily, Sizer seems to be right on target...
...Agee's boyhood haunts in and around Knoxville. They look fine. The Agee home was soon to be razed, so its back porch was salvaged for one sequence, and its furnishings were shipped East to lend authenticity to interior scenes. Trouble is, the author's durable patchwork of memories cannot be packed and crated, nor can intimations of every man's mortality be reduced to a broad hint that something is going to happen to Dad. Director Alex Segal has rendered a poignant minor classic in prosaic style, as if he were a nosy neighbor letting everybody...
...last week Kaiser Aluminum announced that it will build a new aluminum plant in Japan. The man who keeps all systems in a go condition at Kaiser is balding, inexhaustible Edgar Kaiser, 55, who moved in behind Henry J. nine years ago and transformed his father's patchwork empire into a soundly based giant. Edgar also inherited Henry J.'s restlessness. He prowls a white-carpeted office in Oakland, Calif., dialing the world over five telephones on his desk. But he prefers to jet around the globe (200,000 miles last year) inspecting his interests and finding...
...second principal area of concern is NSA's regional structure, a patchwork affair which includes New England and the state of Utah as individual regions. One proposal would replace the regions with four large areas, each one to be administered by a full-time vice-president living in the area. Presently the Association has two Program vice-presidents who operate from Philadelphia and Los Angeles. They have been expected to aid member schools in devising programs, but have generally found the task far too extensive...
...Patchwork Past. The rough handling in court was not Fanny's first setback. In 1821 a racily illustrated edition won fame up Massachusetts way, in what is generally regarded as the first recorded case in the U.S. of suppression of a literary work on grounds of obscenity. Her second-class status thus established, poor Fanny found that the boys just wouldn't leave her alone. Like her sister-in-arms, Lady Chatterley, she has been dog-eared, passed around, pirated, smuggled, disguised in Franny and Zooey jackets, and buried under musky sweatshirts in prep school locker rooms...